Workers' Comp Surveillance

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Workers' Comp and Personal Injury

Authentic Investigations, LLC. field investigators have years of surveillance experience in both rural and urban settings. Whether the assignment is in open country or a congested inner city, we have the experience and stealth to get results. 

Our objective investigative approach serves our clients well. We take our job seriously, and have remained a smaller firm allowing for more personal and customized service. Always honest with clients of the experience level and competency of our investigators. 

We're local and Minnesota licensed. Our Minnesota phone prefix (612) helps authenticates A.I. is not an out-of-state pi broker agency posing as a local business.  Shop local.

How Authentic Investigations Benefits You:

• Provides clear, steady video documentation by experienced investigators.
• Superior in-field stealth capabilities, ensuring increased fraud detection. 
• Presents a competent, presentable image in court.
• Licensed, Bonded, Insured.

If you’re receiving shaky or out-of-focus video from your current vendor we’d like the opportunity to show you our work product.  

Serving Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. 

Some insurance companies may unknowingly work with agencies soliciting investigative work in Minnesota without the proper license. They do so under the guise of being a “national” or “global” investigative agency with “agents nationwide” (or descriptors to the effect). Although these agencies may ultimately use licensed investigators in the states which they cover, without having a private detective license in Minnesota themselves, they could be breaking the law by soliciting work here. In other words, such solicitation and assignment of cases can be illegal even if a Minnesota licensed private detective is hired to do the surveillance work. A liability to insurance companies requesting the investigation.  A windfall for any claimant attorney wishing to have evidence suppressed. 

Some of these companies are in essence broker or referral companies; namely, companies that make their profit by “brokering” or “referring” your file at a reduced rate to someone outside the company. Often these businesses mislead claims professionals into thinking they’ll be working your file – but in turn find someone willing to do the work at a 20-40 percent discount. The individual hired, someone unknown to you, may lack any professional investigative skills. 

Numerous out-state companies advertise illegally in Minnesota and other states via their websites. The State of Minnesota doesn’t have the resources to stop or prosecute them all. In order to protect yourself it’s recommended you visit the states licensing agency’s website. Listed are those businesses and individuals licensed to “advertise” and provide investigative and security services in the State of Minnesota. In Minnesota you can find that website here: https://dps.mn.gov/entity/pdb/Pages/default.aspx

Dismissal of Evidence:

If you intend to use evidence in court which has been obtained through an investigation, it may be dismissed should it have been acquired illegally.

Worthless Evidence:

If the evidence provided proves legally worthless to you, your chances of getting a refund from the detective agency, which may be several states away, is problematic at best.

Unreliable Evidence:

If you want to be assured of the validity of your information, be aware that work quality is not a great concern to many of these agencies who are merely out-of-state vendors. These brokers are frequently little more than middle men who subcontract your case to the lowest bidding pi in the area. Their interests are served by getting their cut, namely a percentage of the total fee. For your own legal and financial safety, directly hire only investigators who are located within the state of Minnesota, or those who can prove licensure in “Minnesota.”